When Gabriel Read lifted his shovel and saw gold, shining like the stars in the Orion on a dark frosty night, he sparked off NZ's first gold rush in 1861

Young Robbie in Dunedin was determined to find his father at the Tuapeka goldfield. With no roads or signposts, not even a map to guide him in a newly-settled land, he set off on foot across the rugged hills to the shanty town of Wetherstons.